Cua is an open-source framework for building AI agents that can interact with desktop applications across Windows, macOS, Linux, and even Android.

It includes cross-platform computer-use drivers, isolated sandboxes, and benchmarking tools for training and evaluating autonomous agents, making it a great project for developers exploring AI-powered desktop automation.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=cua

#OpenSource #AI #AIAgents #Automation #LLM #Windows #Linux #macOS #Android

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Cryptography on the web: the illusion of safety #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/cryptography-on-the-web-the-illusion-of-safety/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

The Moon landing hoax #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-moon-landing-hoax/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

@stux

SHAME !!! WARNING WARNING.

#AI #DataCentre #dataCenter

@elsua54 @NebulaTide @mariafarrell

The time, space, money we don't see and what is not given is also by #DeliberateByDesign.

It is increasingly necessary to also to be #bad / copy #AI etc as part of the ways set by the #system itself - including missing options / lack of real care for people and basically all things to cut corners / "save" time and #caring in their own skewed #profit logic.

OK, I hate to admit it, but I think it's here to stay. That doesn't mean I have to like it.

This post is about microwave ovens.

Sure, they heat food up quicker than a traditional oven.
Sure, they can be seen as a convenience.
Sure, they can heat more things up than a traditional oven can.

But, I like cooking food in my traditional oven or on the hobs and other utensils. I enjoy the process. I find the resulting food is richer in flavour, has a much more dynamic texture, and I get a sense of satisfaction by having done it.
And above all else, if I invite a bunch of people around to cook for them I don't say things like "Great, you're all here, I'll pop the food in the microwave and we can eat!"

I generally only use a microwave oven to heat up porridge in the winter.

This post is not about microwave ovens.

#AI #LLMGenAI #LLMs

Would we have the current #AI fiasco if we had actually struck down #uber and #airbnb in their infancies?

It seems like they pioneered the modern tech asshole paradigm of "explicitly break any laws in the way, and ask forgiveness rather than permission once you get big enough that the state is afraid to step in with more than a wristslap."

LLMs rightfully should be the same class of novelty as print-on-demand kiosks- a nifty tech demo that can't scale past toy uses due to IP reality.

Companies are re-hiring people and admitting #AI is pointless.

AI data centers are getting sued left and right over noise complaints as well as excessive water&electricity usage.

#BigTech has invested billions in AI so it will keep up the charade for a few more years. But AI is basically kaput.

This Sunday-morning-in-europe I am just going to briefly opine on Minsky and Papert's #Perceptrons ( #bookstodon ) and leak disspiriting nz government secrets about how nz's #AI #strategy is going by way of illustration (and #original #news #journalism I guess), from a multifarious handful of senior employees from different regions and departments / crown corporations.

https://toobnix.org/w/ayXvcND3PWuHVqB3gx9Ngm

#commonLisp on #irc #live #liveNOW

#lispyGopherClimate ! Every week since 2022 #technology #podcast .

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The lispy gopher climate banner featuring a post with Erik Sandewall's face on it and "MAKE AI THINK". Amoung things, gophers, lisp aliens.

Trust without identity: hashes and signatures #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/trust-without-identity-hashes-and-signatures/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Understanding the creator persona #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/understanding-the-creator-persona/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Anyone else here use LLMs as an interactive scratch pad just to bounce ideas off of and get the juices flowing?

What about generating maps, charts, and player handouts?

What has your experience been like?

#ttrpg #ai #llms

"Europe wasted no time using its landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA) to try to rein in Big Tech. Companies like Apple, Meta, and Google have faced steep fines and orders to modify their business practices since the law came into force in 2024. And the hits keep on coming for Big Tech in Europe. After several months of consideration, the European Commission has announced new DMA measures that will force Google to support interoperability and competition in the European Union, and Google is not happy about it.

The new “specification measures” cover two elements of Google’s business: Android phones and search. Both changes could theoretically increase competition and give users more choices, but Google claims they will undermine privacy and security. But as a “gatekeeper” under the DMA, Google has no choice but to comply. As the European Commission points out in its announcement, these decisions are legally binding.

On Android, Google will have to open up access to competing AI platforms. Currently, Google’s Gemini gets preferential access to the system. Gemini is preloaded on all Google-certified Android phones and can wake up in response to the “Hey Google” hot word. Google’s AI also includes system and app automation features, screen content access, and more.

“Third-party AI assistants are therefore limited in how they can offer their innovative services, making them less attractive to 60% of EU users who have an Android device,” the Commission said in its press release."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/its-official-eu-will-force-google-to-share-search-data-and-open-up-ai-on-android/

#EU #Google #BigTech #DMA #Android #AI #Interoperability #Oligopolies #Competition #Antitrust

The stories a car can tell #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-stories-a-car-can-tell/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

@mgorny #AI is #clankers 🤖 all the way down, and that’s why wankers love 💕 it *so much!*

#Resist #AIslop and #botshit.

So.. I had a minipiphany about all the quantum not ready stuff..

Maybe Im wrong.. but..
To create quantum systems requires some pretty hefty technology. Most need cooled to a few degrees kelvin.

This level of tech isnt readily available to script kiddies and yes, tech and time marches on, but for at least a good while this is state and monolith size.

So all the noise about quantum breaking encryption and such is really warnings about how the tech overlords cant be trusted.

#randomness
#AI

Different nations. Different cultures. Different beliefs.

Yet ordinary people everywhere are facing the same expanding systems: digital identity, programmable finance, surveillance, automated governance and increasingly powerful AI.

This lecture is not designed to divide the world into sides. It is an invitation to recognise what we share.

Watch it. Verify it. Share it across borders.

#Humanity #DigitalFreedom #AI #Surveillance #DigitalID

Same people who are very strict about their #copyright train #AI disregarding everybody's copyright, to make us all say "We love copyright"...

Are the same people that made the climate change, to make us say "We love ICE".

#ICE #uspol #trickery

Here's a big part of the reason* I don't use so-called #AI to write code for me: I actually enjoy writing code. I wouldn't offload this task to AI for the same reason I wouldn't use it to go for a walk in the woods, or eat a delicious meal for me. Why would any sane** person do this?

* It's not the only reason, but this is a fedi post, not an essay.

** This post should in no way be considered as me claiming to be sane. 🙃

Fake IDs: uncovering inconsistencies #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/fake-ids-uncovering-inconsistencies/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Meta opens ads MCP to any app, cutting integration code to zero: Any developer with a Meta app can now wire AI agents into live ad accounts, ending the custom integration code the platform previously required to connect. https://ppc.land/meta-opens-ads-mcp-to-any-app-cutting-integration-code-to-zero/ #Meta #Advertising #DigitalMarketing #AI #AdTech

Louis Pouzin and the datagram revolution #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/louis-pouzin-and-the-datagram-revolution/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#SanFrancisco Demands #Apple and #Google Delete #AI ‘#Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-demands-apple-and-google-delete-ai-nudify-apps-from-app-stores/

#privacy #nsfw #deepfake

Only a fool would deny that... I'm getting tired of all this anti-AI bullshit. It's just a very efficient automation tool with specific affordances that can be well used or badly used. OK, there are still some hiccups in terms of efficiency but this is mostly an engineering problem together with an illiteracy problem from the part of some users.

"The Star Wars director, George Lucas, has added his voice to the growing chorus of film-makers receptive to the rising use of AI tools in moviemaking.

Speaking in an interview with A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas, 82, said: “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies.”

Resistance to the technology, he said, was “very much like sitting here saying: ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’”

Adoption of such tools, continued Lucas, was an inevitability. “There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.”

Lucas is not the only director of a Star Wars film to have come out in favour of AI. The British film-maker Gareth Edwards, who made Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and most recently Jurassic World Rebirth said generative AI “is a fucking genius at helping you”."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/george-lucas-likens-ai-sceptics-to-luddites-clinging-to-horses-and-carts

#AI #GenerativeAI #Luddites #NeoLuddites #AntiAI #Film #Movies #Cinema

Behind Discord: Citron and Vishnevskiy #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-discord-citron-and-vishnevskiy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

@MichaelRoss
I would also stay far away from it. Accountability of software is an important factor in automation. Things that can't be trusted should not be given permissions it can't handle.

To use a famous quote: "With great power comes great responsibility"

#ai

@MichaelRoss
I wouldn't trust it for anything.

A scripted inventory management system will show traceable and reproducible results. Anything a LLM agent does will not be reproducible and is impossible to audit.
#ai

Privacy is a luxury.

https://www.capable.design/products/ai-camo-t-shirt

#ai #privacy #facialrecognition #fashion #capitalism

Reading in a hobbyist magazine the phrase "Google AI says" where they cite it like an authority, with absolutely no references. Gahhhhh 😟

(Not any better than "a random Internet website" or "a random Google search" or "the dude at the bar said")

#AI #Aipocalypse

Internet subcultures: Tulpamancers #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/internet-subcultures-tulpamancers/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Disney has quietly premiered its first AI-produced series.

Ozzy Fox, a preschool show created for Disney Jr. in collaboration with Animaj, has already surpassed 800,000 views on YouTube just 2 days after its debut.

The release marks another major step in the growing use of AI-assisted production in animation.

What do you think about AI being used to create animated series?

#Disney #AI #Animation #OzzyFox

⚠️ DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns

The attached #video details the absolute #privacy horror of LG #television and #monitor products, that install #adware without consent, have #AI integration, and a horrible privacy policy..

> LG recently forced upon us an app install loaded with #McAfee adware through a #Windows update. We found that this has been happening to tons of users, made worse by LG's shady history with #TV's that instruct buyers to inform house visitors of third-party microphones in their living room. At no point in the adware or application install did LG or Microsoft ask us for consent or permission to install the software and enable its various permissions. On monitors ranging 1 day old in our office to 3 years old, we've been able to replicate these issues -- including on the LG 34GX900A-B that we just bought (and have now returned, following #spyware concerns).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uefFYe6bM

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Excerpt from LG privacy policy reading: i. CONSENT REQUIREMENT: You acknowledge and agree that it is your sole responsibility to obtain all necessary consents from any third parties whose voices may be captured by the Productand to notify household members and guests their their voices may be captured and processed, in compliance with the applicable wiretapping, eavesdropping, and privacy laws.

For fuck's sake!

Mass surveillance authorized on NC highways, all other state roads

https://www.wral.com/news/nccapitol/surveillance-drivers-camera-alpr-license-plate-reader-nc-budget-public-safety-privacy-july-2026/

#NC #Flock #AI #Camera #Surveillance #Privacy #Tech

Privacy, surveillance, and the crypto wars #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/privacy-surveillance-and-the-crypto-wars/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

I'm getting really sick of #AI culture and hype.

It can be useful as a tool, but the people running the corporations providing the LLMs, like Anthropic and OpenAI, are the real reason it's toxic. And the toxicity is spreading.

They direct people to train models on copyrighted data without compensation and push for more environmentally-damaging data centers. They are the ones giving CEOs excuses to replace people with automated tools.

They are the enemy, not the technology itself.

Internet subcultures: kin communities #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/internet-subcultures-kin-communities/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#Claude #Chrome extension flaw lets malicious extensions trigger #AI actions

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/claude-chrome-extension-flaw-lets-malicious-extensions-trigger-ai-actions/

#cybersecurity #Anthropic

FYI: Google shifts AI ad labeling liability entirely to advertisers: Neither the automatic setting nor a custom label guarantees legal compliance, Google states, leaving advertisers alone to confirm every ad meets local law. https://ppc.land/google-shifts-ai-ad-labeling-liability-entirely-to-advertisers/ #Google #AI #Advertising #AdTech #DigitalMarketing

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#Linux #AI #OpenSource

Protecting #Privacy in an #AI Era

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/protecting-privacy-in-an-ai-era.html

“PLEASE USE AI” — poem by Joanna Atkins-Potts

Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DZaR5o_iKNy/

#ai #Poetry #Poem

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PLEASE USE AI Please use AI when your mother dies. Ask it what grief feels like. Let it explain bereavement in twelve clear bullet points. Do not spend years finding her in the supermarket by the tomatoes she always bought, in the smell of rain on warm pavement, discovering new ways to miss her.

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Please use AI the next time you fall in love. Ask it how to know whether someone is the one. It will give you a faster answer than watching a person become familiar, learning how they take their tea, which floorboards will wake them, how their silence sounds when something is wrong.

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And please use AI for your wedding vows, your eulogies, your apologies. Why struggle for the right words when a machine can give you beautiful ones? Words untouched by shaking hands. Words that have never sat beside a hospital bed. Words that have never known the terrible privilege of having something to lose.

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Meanwhile I will be over here watching someone I love fall asleep on the sofa, the television talking to itself, rain tapping the windows, the dog twitching in her dreams, wasting my life on these small unremarkable moments that become, without asking permission, the whole thing.

China's Moonshot AI launched its largest model ever — and rival AI stocks plunged.

@quartz reports: "Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, outperformed several leading U.S. systems on some benchmarks while pricing below top-tier American rivals."

https://flip.it/v2.ABK

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

How ideas gain momentum online #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/influence-and-narrative-amplification-how-ideas-gain-momentum-online/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Quantum hardware: building a quantum computer #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/quantum-hardware-building-a-quantum-computer/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

How to detect the signals of a fraud #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/how-to-detect-the-signals-of-a-fraud/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Corporate red flags: the invisible risks of partnerships #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/corporate-red-flags-the-invisible-risks-of-partnerships/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#Google #Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, #malware #botnet operator

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-gemini-cli-abused-as-a-hacking-agent-malware-botnet-operator/

#cybersecurity #AI

@aardvark - No. This is the issue:

Big AI (read: that has central compute in big data centers that destroy local environments and economies) are being forced on everyone through a concerted effort involving forced adaptation, govt subsidies, and corporate subsidies. The underlying goals are wealth transfer, compute control, and information control.

Those in power and leadership that ignore this are at best complicit in furthering the harm and are at worst actively pushing, facilitating, and enacting harm.

Those that use LLMs often see a localized and immediate benefit (eg in their work or daily convenience), but at a greater long term and deep expense.

But while I don't think users should use LLMs, many don't have a choice and many folks would choose short term immediate gains over long term harm because they lack leverage and just have to survive.

So, in the original post, I am specifically targeting the leader. Who at best is complicit. And at worst is at fault.

#AI #Linux #Linus

Hack Reveals #Suno #AI Music Generator Scraped #YouTube, #Deezer, and #Genius

https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/

#cybersecurity #art

#AIslop made regular things done regularly look impressive. Before #AI you had to do a good job to impress people. Today you just have to not use AI and it is impressive on its own.

#art #mastoart

An attempted fire-bombing, violent threats and the risk of security breaches is what's faced by some employees who work for AI companies. So much so, one of those companies has increased spending on security by up to 150%.

The folks at Wall Street Journal have gifted this article that offers an insight into the AI backlash and the violence that sometimes follows.

https://flip.it/tDmPea

#AI #OpenAI #Anthropic

@rl_dane

This is the second post where you'd dropped the F bomb....for good reason.

I have so much to say but not sure how to say it but I will do my best. For *years*, I've enjoyed using #Linux both as a hobbyist and professional #sysadmin. The OS is definitely not the one I started with 20+ years ago. Since at least COVID has....well, it's turned into a full blown corporate-controlled high speed sprawling mess. Not necessarily matured just grown exponentially wherever the various powers see fit. For this and other reasons, I am leaning more and more towards #FreeBSD.

Lastly, I will admit there are some #AI niche use cases which do interest me (related to my own hobbies) but shoving it into everything is not a good idea.

@patrick

Artificial intelligence company Thinking Machines Lab is taking on Chinese-made open-weight AI models and could become a real contender alongside OpenAI and Anthropic. Learn about its new open AI model Inkling.

https://flip.it/D5psGM

#AI #Inkling #ThinkingMachinesLab

The argument that "AI works therefore we should use it" is akin to "Torture works therefore we should use it."

I don't mean that as hyperbole.

The underlying purpose of AI is at least twofold:

1) It puts a layer of abstraction over information.
- Primary Source: Raw data (eg video footage of an event)
- Secondary Source: Analysis (eg Low bias news and analysis of what this event means in the context of other events)
- Tertiary Source: Meta Analysis (eg Encyclopedia entries summing up Analysis)
- Quaternary Source: News Opinion and Propaganda (eg a "News Entertainment" channel that tells you what to think regarding the event)
- Pentanary (?) Source: TLDR summations divorced from underlying sources (eg AI summations, guides, etc that describe events or provide recommendations and guidance but follow behind the scenes algorithms that control the output)

The purpose of this layer of abstraction is control of information and removing the distribution of information from the actual events. This allows for influence campaigns, tuned marketing, tuned propaganda, and therefore control.

2) Centralization of compute power
- Computers in our hands that we control allow us a lot of power.
- Moore's Law no longer applies to localized compute power so we are in an era of repair and maintenance.

That means two things for corporations. Loss of income and loss of control.
- Forcing us to use centralized compute forces us to continue to spend money
- Localized AI engines still allow for centralized algorithms. (open sourced algos and localized engines dont factor in here as use and usecases are low)

AI is being pushed so heavily because both governments and corporations need it to further their wealth and power.

They push it via both making it cheap and accessible and having a veneer of usability.

This is a similar pattern to "Underpricing competition to drive them out and then jacking up rates when you have a monopoly", "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" and similar approaches.

So.

I am not arguing whether AI is useful. I am arguing that its use is detrimental to us. In fact, the more it becomes useful the worse it becomes BECAUSE more people adopt it. It hurts us as we use it. It hurts us more as we use it more.

Tying it back, I don't care if torture is useful and gets your desired results. Torture is bad and it hurts us.

#Linus #AI #Linux #solarPunk

@rl_dane @heiseonlineenglish

Sharting. AI is sharting

Maybe a bubble pop will come too, but for now, AI is Sharting.

#ai

Types of online scams #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/types-of-online-scams/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

AI and the next wave of conspiracies #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/ai-and-the-next-wave-of-conspiracies/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Ward Christensen and the invention of BBS #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/ward-christensen-and-the-invention-of-bbs/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Damn. This quote from Linus Torvalds is... well... damning.

In response to a discussion around use of generative AI as it relates to contributions to the Linux code base, Linus (creator and lead contributor to Linux) firmly states that AI contributions are welcome.

But then he goes on and concludes with this:

"The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.

This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.

In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.

Linus"

A lot of us are on Linux specifically because of the social and political positives. Closed source is control. Open source is democracy.

Linus doing the typical tech-bro "i don't think of politics, I only think of tech" harkens back to any number of "science without ethics" atrocities.

Linus is and has always been a tech-bro (or proto tech bro). He has his throne of power and is happy where he is. Other tech-bros want money and influence. They're all the same.

But Linus is wrong.

Tech is politics.

And his stance and guiding influence with Linux is wrong.

Linus just made a political statement and has shifted the politics and societal approach of Linux.

Source: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

#linux #solarPunk #Linus #AI #openSource

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screenshot of Linus' remarks stating: The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology. Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project. This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be. In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons. And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools. Linus"

Gods, I've had my head down these last few months with family and life stuff, so I've not been kept fully abreast.

But Canonical doing the most Canonical thing and fully embracing AI just plain hurts.

I'm such a (classic) Luddite. It feels like the world is collapsing around me.

And its not just "new tech bad".

I love the advances we're having in balcony solar, and cutting edge hydroponics, and non-LLM automation, and machine learning as it relates to medicine and accessibility, and meshnet communication standards and tech.

I hate surveillance tech like Palantir and Flock, just like I hated blockchain and NFTs, and Generative AI LLMs, etc.

I'm just going to core out a space in my life and find folks who do the same and try to strengthen them.

Looks like I'm going to move to OpenBSD soon though, so that's nice.

https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-is-going-all-in-on-generative-ai-and-other-linux-distros-might-follow/

#solarPunk #AI #OpenBSD #Linux #Ubuntu #Canonical

WSJ: The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives

Violent threats against AI companies are rising and spilling over into real-world security incidents

#AI #aibacklash #AIpocalypse

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WSJ: The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives Violent threats against AI companies are rising and spilling over into real-world security incidents

The Atlantic: Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project

(paywall, subscriber only, but interesting to see that article exists...)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai-engineering-disaster/687901/

#AI #GenAi

@rl_dane Does this come as a surprise to you?

#Linux is more corporate than ever but it didn't happen overnight. The OS drives #BigTech and companies around the world, and now it's pretty much the de facto OS for #AI.

Linus is a millionaire not because of the community but because of Big Tech and massive corporate contributions.